Ideal Primary Pegboard with Colorful Wooden Pegs New England farm or a tuna fish sandwich

or a tuna fish sandwich with chips

and black outlines delineating fingers and fingernails

There are a total of six chip-carved layers (five stacked on top of the base layer) and what I believe is its original glass (which I removed to photograph it) with a sturdily attached wired back for hanging

a bit more pronounced in photos than actually

Ideal Primary Pegboard with Colorful Wooden Pegs New England farm or a tuna fish sandwichThough not designed by Froebel, these were most definitely influenced by his kindergarten Gifts and very much in line with them, produced by Ideal School Supply Co of Chicago as an educational toy, encouraging color and pattern recognition, counting, creative play, and as well as cultivating manual dexterity. To very pretty effect! 1910s 20s I believe. Wooden peg board measures 5 13 16" x 5 7 8". The board shows some light surface splitting along the